2019–20 Big East Conference men's basketball season

2019–20 Big East Conference men's basketball season
2019–20 Big East Conference men's basketball season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Basketball
Number of teams	10
TV partner(s)	CBS, CBSSN, FOX, FS1, FSN
Regular Season
Season champions	Creighton, Seton Hall, Villanova
Season MVP	Myles Powell, Seton Hall
Tournament
Basketball seasons
	← 2018–19 2020–21 →

2019–20 Big East men's basketball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
No. 7 Creighton	13	–	5	.722	24	–	7	.774
No. 11 Villanova	13	–	5	.722	24	–	7	.774
No. 16 Seton Hall	13	–	5	.722	21	–	9	.700
Providence	12	–	6	.667	19	–	12	.613
No. 24 Butler	10	–	8	.556	22	–	9	.710
Marquette	8	–	10	.444	18	–	12	.600
Xavier	8	–	10	.444	19	–	13	.594
Georgetown	5	–	13	.278	15	–	17	.469
St. John's	5	–	13	.278	17	–	15	.531
DePaul	3	–	15	.167	16	–	16	.500
Note: The 2020 Big East tournament was cancelled at halftime of the first game of the quarterfinals due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rankings from AP poll

The 2019–20 Big East Conference men's basketball season began with practices in October 2019, followed by the start of the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in November. Conference play began in January 2020.

Head coaches

Coaching changes

In April 2019, Chris Mullin resigned as the head coach of St. John's, leaving the program after four seasons.^[1] On April 19, Arkansas head coach Mike Anderson was hired by St. John's as Mullin's replacement.^[2]

Coaches

Team	Head coach	Previous job	Years at school	Overall record	Big East record	Big East titles	NCAA Tournaments	NCAA Final Fours	NCAA Championships
Butler	LaVall Jordan	Milwaukee	3	50–32	17–20	0	1	0	0
Creighton	Greg McDermott	Iowa State	10	217–111	56–52	0	5	0	0
DePaul	Dave Leitao	Tulsa (asst.)	8	118–117	46–74	0	0	0	0
Georgetown	Patrick Ewing	Charlotte Hornets (asst.)	3	49–46	19–35	0	0	0	0
Marquette	Steve Wojciechowski	Duke (asst.)	6	107–72	43–48	0	2	0	0
Providence	Ed Cooley	Fairfield	9	170–116	72–73	1	5	0	0
Seton Hall	Kevin Willard	Iona	10	179–131	70–90	1	3	0	0
St. John's	Mike Anderson	Arkansas	1	11–3	0–0	0	0	0	0
Villanova	Jay Wright	Hofstra	19	457–177	203–105	7	14	3	2
Xavier	Travis Steele	Xavier (asst.)	2	29–18	9–9	0	0	0	0

Notes:

Years at school includes 2019–20 season.
Overall and Big East records are from time at current school and are through week nine of the 2019–20 season.
McDermott's MVC conference records not included since team began play in the Big East.

Preseason

Preseason poll

Prior to the season, the Big East conducted a poll of Big East coaches. Coaches do not place their own team on their ballots.^[3]

Rank	Team
1.	Seton Hall (5)
2.	Villanova (5)
3.	Xavier
T-4.	Marquette
T-4.	Providence
6.	Georgetown
7.	Creighton
8.	Butler
9.	St. John's
10.	DePaul
(first place votes)

Preseason All-Big East teams

Honor	Recipient
Preseason Player of the Year	Myles Powell, Seton Hall
Preseason Freshman of the Year	Jeremiah Robinson-Earl, Villanova
Preseason All-Big East First Team	Kamar Baldwin, Butler
	Ty-Shon Alexander, Creighton
	Markus Howard, Marquette
	Alpha Diallo, Providence
	Naji Marshall, Xavier
Preseason All-Big East Second Team	Paul Reed, DePaul
	James Akinjo, Georgetown
	L. J. Figueroa, St. John's
	Mustapha Heron, St. John's
	Collin Gillespie, Villanova
	Jermaine Samuels, Villanova
Preseason All-Big East Honorable Mention	Omer Yurtseven, Georgetown
	Paul Scruggs, Xavier

*Schedule Source:^[4]

Regular season

Rankings

**Legend**
		Increase in ranking
		Decrease in ranking
		Not ranked previous week
		() First place votes

		Pre	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9
Butler	AP			RV	RV	24	18	17	12	11
Butler	C		RV	RV	RV	24	19	16	11	10
Creighton	AP	RV	RV						RV	RV
Creighton	C	RV	RV	RV	RV		RV	RV	RV	RV
DePaul	AP					RV	RV	RV	RV	RV
DePaul	C				RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV
Georgetown	AP	RV	RV		RV		RV	RV	RV	RV
Georgetown	C	RV
Marquette	AP	RV	RV	RV			RV	RV	RV	RV
Marquette	C	RV	RV	RV			RV	RV	RV	RV
Providence	AP	RV	RV	RV
Providence	C	RV
Seton Hall	AP	12	12	13	13	16	22	RV	RV	RV
Seton Hall	C	13	13	13	13	15	22	RV	RV	RV
St. John's	AP									RV
St. John's	C
Villanova	AP	10	10	17	22	23	20	18	10	10
Villanova	C	10	15	15	21	22	20	14	9	9
Xavier	AP	19	21	18	25	RV	23	RV	RV	RV
Xavier	C	21	21	21	23	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV

Conference matrix

This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play.

	Butler	Creighton	DePaul	Georgetown	Marquette	Providence	Seton Hall	St. John's	Villanova	Xavier
vs. Butler	–	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–1	0–2
vs. Creighton	1–1	–	0–2	1–1	0–2	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–2
vs. DePaul	1–1	2–0	–	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	2–0
vs. Georgetown	1–1	1–1	1–1	–	2–0	2–0	2–0	0–2	1–0	2–0
vs. Marquette	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–2	–	2–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	0–2
vs. Providence	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–2	0–2	–	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–1
vs. Seton Hall	0–2	1–0	0–2	0–2	0–2	1–1	–	0–2	1–1	1–1
vs. St. John's	2–0	1–1	0–2	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	–	2–0	2–0
vs. Villanova	1–1	1–1	0–2	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–2	–	0–2
vs. Xavier	1–0	2–0	0–2	0–2	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–2	2–0	–
Total	9-8	12-5	3-14	5-12	8-9	11-6	13-4	4-13	12-5	8-9

Player of the week

Throughout the season, the Big East Conference named a player of the week and a freshman of the week each Monday.

Week	Player of the week	Freshman of the week
November 11, 2019^[5]	Markus Howard, Marquette	Jeremiah Robinson-Earl, Villanova
November 18, 2019^[6]	Myles Powell, Seton Hall	Romeo Weems, DePaul
November 25, 2019^[7]	Collin Gillespie, Villanova	Romeo Weems (2), DePaul
December 2, 2019^[8]	Markus Howard (2), Marquette	Justin Moore, Villanova
December 9, 2019^[9]	Mac McClung, Georgetown	Justin Moore (2), Villanova
December 16, 2019^[10]	Mac McClung (2), Georgetown	Justin Moore (3), Villanova
December 23, 2019^[11]	Markus Howard (3), Marquette	Zach Freemantle, Xavier
January 6, 2020^[12]	Myles Powell (2), Seton Hall	Justin Moore (4), Villanova
January 13, 2020^[13]	Myles Powell (3), Seton Hall	Jeremiah Robinson-Earl (2), Villanova
January 20, 2020^[14]	Markus Howard (4), Marquette	Jeremiah Robinson-Earl (3), Villanova
January 27, 2020^[15]	Kamar Baldwin, Butler	Jeremiah Robinson-Earl (4), Villanova
February 3, 2020^[16]	Tyrique Jones, Xavier	Jeremiah Robinson-Earl (5), Villanova
February 10, 2020^[17]	Myles Powell (4), Seton Hall	KyKy Tandy, Xavier
February 17, 2020^[18]	Alpha Diallo, Providence	Jeremiah Robinson-Earl (6), Villanova
February 24, 2020^[19]	Marcus Zegarowski, Creighton	Justin Moore (5), Villanova
March 2, 2020^[20]	Markus Howard (5), Marquette	Julian Champagnie, St. John's
March 8, 2020^[21]	Kamar Baldwin (2), Butler	Julian Champagnie (2), St. John's

Honors and awards

Big East Awards

Award	Recipient(s)
2020 Big East Men's Basketball Individual Awards^[22]
Player of the Year	Myles Powell, G., Seton Hall
Coach of the Year	Greg McDermott, Creighton
Defensive Player of the Year	Romaro Gill, C., Seton Hall
Freshman of the Year	Jeremiah Robinson-Earl, F., Villanova
Most Improved Player of the Year	Romaro Gill, C., Seton Hall
Scholar-Athlete of the Year	Kamar Baldwin, G., Butler
Sixth Man Award	Denzel Mahoney, G., Creighton
Sportsmanship Award	Kamar Baldwin, G., Butler Jagan Mosely, G., Georgetown Emmitt Holt, F., Providence

First Team	Second Team	Honorable Mention	All-Freshman Team
2020 Big East Men's Basketball All-Conference Teams^[23]
Markus Howard* – Marquette Myles Powell* – Seton Hall Saddiq Bey* – Villanova Kamar Baldwin – Butler Ty-Shon Alexander – Creighton Naji Marshall – Xavier	Marcus Zegarowski* – Creighton Paul Reed – DePaul Collin Gillespie – Villanova Alpha Diallo – Providence Tyrique Jones – Xavier	Ömer Yurtseven - Georgetown Quincy McKnight - Seton Hall	Jeremiah Robinson-Earl* – Villanova Justin Moore* – Villanova Romeo Weems – DePaul Julian Champagnie – St. John's Zach Freemantle – Xavier KyKy Tandy – Xavier
* - denotes unanimous selection † - Due to a tie in the voting, an additional position was added